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Ph.D. students

  • David Kelly, 2025 Ph.D. AME (Wensing), Technical Solutions Engineer, Epic
  • John Nganga, 2025 Ph.D. AME (Wensing)
  • Shenggao Li, 2025 Ph.D. AME (Wensing)
  • Mengyu Liu, 2025 Ph.D. CSE (Kong), Assistant Professor, Washington State University
  • Zifan Wang, 2025 Ph.D. CSE from Syracuse (Kong), Research Scientist, Meta
  • Ryan Posh, 2024 Ph.D. AME (Wensing & Schmiedeler), Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan
  • He Li, 2024 Ph.D. AME (Wensing), Roboticist/Research Scientist, The AI Institute
  • Tongjia Zheng, 2024 Ph.D. EE (Lin), Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
  • Wei Zheng, 2023 Ph.D. EE (Lin), Tools Engineer, Autonomous Driving, Isuzu Technical Center of America
  • Vincent Kurtz, 2023 Ph.D. EE (Lin), Visiting Assistant Professor, DePaul University
  • Gabriel Bravo Palacios, 2023 Ph.D. AME (Wensing) Associate Researcher, Computer Science, Dartmouth College
  • Lin Zhang, 2023 Ph.D. CSE from Syracuse (Kong) Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
  • Roopak Karulkar, 2022 Ph.D. AME (Wensing) Software Engineer II - Robotics, Agility Robotics
  • Taylor Higgins, 2022 Ph.D. AME (Wensing & Schmiedeler) Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Florida A&M University-Florida State University
  • Tan Chen, 2021 Ph.D. AME (Goodwine) Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Michigan Technological University
  • Xiangyu Ni, 2021 Ph.D. AME (Goodwine) Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment
  • Alireza Partovi, 2021 Ph.D. EE (Lin) Senior Thermal Control Software Engineer, Ford Motor Company
  • Rafael Rodrigues da Silva, 2021 Ph.D. EE (Lin) Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Motion Planning, Motional
  • Francis Akowuah, 2021 Ph.D. CSE from Syracuse (Kong) Assistant Professor, South Dakota Mines
  • Martin Fevre, 2020 Ph.D. AME (Schmiedeler) Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Humanoid Skills, Agility Robotics
  • Zhiyu Liu, 2020 Ph.D. EE (Lin) Software Engineering Manager, Machine Learning, Meta
  • Jin Dai, 2019 Ph.D. EE (Lin) Staff System R & D Engineer, Momenta
  • Kevin O'Brien, 2019 Ph.D. Bioengineering (Schmiedeler) Managing Engineer, Exponent
  • Bo Wu, 2018 Ph.D. EE (Lin) Machine Learning Software Engineer, Apple Inc.
  • Kevin Leyden, 2018 Ph.D. AME (Goodwine) Lockheed Martin
  • Xiaobin Zhang, 2017 Ph.D. EE (Lin) Senior Staff Software Engineer, Zoox
  • Larry Funke, 2017 Ph.D. AME (Schmiedeler) Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Ohio Northern University
  • Travis Brown, 2015 Ph.D. AME (Schmiedeler) Staff Robotics Hardware Engineer, Agility Robotics
  • José Lugo, 2014 Ph.D. AME (Batill & Schmiedeler) Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez
  • Michael Kennedy, 2014 Ph.D. AME (Schmiedeler) Deputy Director of Monitoring and Analytics Governance, Integration, and Consolidation, Healthcare Operations Center, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
  • Anne Martin, 2014 Ph.D. AME (Schmiedeler) Associate Professor, Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Penn State University
  • Kai Zhao, 2014 Ph.D. AME (Schmiedeler) Senior Director of Engineering, Magna International
  • David Post, 2013 Ph.D. AME (Schmiedeler) Senior Engineer, L3 Interstate Electronics Corporation
  • Jason Nightingale, 2012 Ph.D. AME (Goodwine & Hind) Assistant Director of Amateur Scouting, Buffalo Sabres
  • Punit Bandi, 2012 Ph.D. AME (Tovar & Schmiedeler) Senior Mechanical Technical Leader, BorgWarner
  • Satyajit Ambike, 2012 Ph.D. ME from Ohio State (Schmiedeler) Associate Professor, Health and Kinesiology, Purdue University
  • Dayu Lv, 2011 Ph.D. ME (Goodwine) Research Scientist, Center for Diabetes Technology, University of Virginia
  • Baoyang Deng, 2011 Ph.D. ME (Goodwine) Engineer Specialist, Caterpillar
  • Alice Nightingale, 2010 Ph.D. AME (Jumper & Goodwine) Associate Professor of Teaching, Engineering Education, University at Buffalo
  • Vivek Yadav, 2010 Ph.D. ME from Ohio State (Schmiedeler) Principal Applied Scientist, Amazon
  • Leonard Rusli, 2008 Ph.D. ME from Ohio State (Luscher & Schmiedeler) Vice Rector for Academic Affairs, Swiss German University
  • Hong Zou, 2007 Ph.D. ME from Ohio State (Schmiedeler) Head of Application Engineering, Runway Safe
  • Neil Petroff, 2006 Ph.D. AME (Goodwine) Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, High Point University
  • M. Brett McMickell, 2003 Ph.D. AME (Goodwine) Chief Technology Officer, Kubota North America
  • Yejun Wei, 2002 Ph.D. AME (Goodwine)

M.S. students

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  • Alexis Laudenslager, 2025 M.S. AME (McGuinness), Systems Engineer II, BAE Systems
  • Sanchit Sinha, 2024 M.S. AME (Schmiedeler), Ph.D. student, Mechanical Engineering, IIT-Bombay
  • Marty Kilbane, 2023 M.S. AME (Schmiedeler & Bolívar-Nieto) Ph.D. student, University of Michigan
  • Omar Rasheed, 2022 M.S. AME (Schmiedeler & Zahr) Product Development Engineer, Runway Safe
  • Jorge Lopez, 2021 M.S. AME (Schmiedeler) Senior Structural Engineer, Pratt & Whitney 
  • Rojitha Goonesekere, 2020 M.S. AME (Wensing) Software Engineer, Evry Health
  • Yinhao Zhu, 2020 M.S. EE (Lin) Staff Engineer, Qualcomm
  • Gabriel Iturralde Duenas, 2020 M.S. AME (Schmiedeler) Head of Technology, Gritsee
  • Al Olszewski, 2019 M.S. AME (Schmiedeler) Senior Program Manager, Akkio
  • Grigoriy Dubrovskiy, 2018 M.S. EE (Lin) Senior Software Engineer, Serve Robotics
  • Simon Hinnekens, 2018 M.S. AME (Schmiedeler) Postdoctoral Scholar, UCLouvain
  • Chris Maurice, 2017 M.S. AME (Schmiedeler) Building Enclosure Regional Manager, Smith Seckman Reid
  • Trevor Logan, 2017 M.S. EE (Lin) Senior Specialist, MBSE Deployment, L3Harris Technologies
  • Samuel Silva, 2016 M.S. EE (Lin) Lead Computer Vision Engineer, Blackmagic Design
  • Ashley Nettleman, 2015 M.S. AME (Goodwine) 
  • Nicholas Galati, 2013 M.S. AME (Goodwine)
  • Andrew Balhoff, 2012 M.S. AME (Schmiedeler) Project Engineer, Saker Group
  • Michael O'Connor, 2012 M.S. AME (Goodwine) Product Manager/Engineer, Curtiss-Wright Nuclear
  • Marc Ma, 2000 M.S. AME (Goodwine) Solutions Architect, ICE
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